Remember doubleheaders?
I'm old enough that I do.
We're talking fan-friendly baseball at its finest -- as Tom Verducci of Sports Illustrated recalls:
It was free major league baseball. It was the scheduled doubleheader, an idea so outrageously fan friendly that every owner today -- every owner for the past 13 years -- regards it as verboten ... you paid one price, the same price you would pay for a single game, but you saw two games. In effect, the second game was free ...
and ...
... something in the fabric of the game, however, was lost with the death of the doubleheader. Is there another aphorism in baseball more iconic and sweet than “Let’s play two!” -- the baseball philosophy from Mr. Cub, Ernie Banks, guaranteed to put a smile on your face?
The last scheduled doubleheader, by the way, took place June 7, 1996, at the Metrodome between the Athletics and the Twins.
You still hear the term "doubleheader" used as part of the language to describe two of anything, though it's anyone's guess how long that will last. It'll be tragic when the term "doubleheader" becomes as passe as the baseball version.
Photo: Ernie "Let's Play Two" Banks after hitting one out.
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